After Carlo Dolci

With Philpot & Jackson, Florence;

Thereafter acquired by the present owner.

This work is an eighteenth-century copy of Dolci's Angel of the Annunciation.¹ The original formed the pendant to Dolci's Virgin Annunciate. Both were popular compositions and widely reproduced.²

¹ Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, inv. no. San Marco e Cenacoli, no. 61. See F. Baldassari, Carlo Dolci, Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, Florence 2015, pp. 214-215, cat. no. 111, reproduced.

² Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, inv. no. San Marco e Cenacoli, no. 62. See F. Baldassari, Carlo Dolci, Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, Florence 2015, p. 215, cat. no. 112, reproduced.